The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-21


picks up.
At Sumterville the wind of last Wednes-
day evening blew the MAN residence of
Col. Shecut some three feet off the pillars
and damaged it more or less in other re-
spects
Sumter county soil is we'll adapted to the
growth of sugar cane, and the syrup and
sugar made there is said to be equal to the
best that comes from the fine plantations of
Louisiana.
A heavy pile driver is at work under the
supervision of VIC. Stubbefeld, on
the trestle across LakeVirglnia, near Winter
Park. The trestle work on this road is about
half completed.
The citizens of Seffner will furnish the
lumber, and the railroad will erect spa
cious pavilion at that place, and it will be
one of the picnic grounds on the South
Florida railroad.
J. C. NJ. Combs, of Daytona, has a twig
| from an orange tree in ID. III. L.owery's
grove that contained several well-developed
blossoms, besides fruit from as large as No.
10 shot to half grown.
Hon. b. NJ. Robinson has received his
| commission as Supervisor of Registration
| for Orange county. On Monday last he
| flied his bond, and it was approved by the
County Commissioners.
The horse of County Superintendent
Buchloz, of Tampa, got away from him at
! Clearwater last Sunday night, and he
has been unble to hear from him or get any
trace as to his whereabouts.
AT Mariana James Sexton, on Wednes-
day last, had the misfortune of having his
| right arm caught in gin, and before relief
! could be had it was horribly lacerated, ne
cesstating its amputation above the elbow.
At Gabrila, a few days ago female
opossum with young in her pocket was
caught, kerosene oil poured over and a
lighted match applied There is talk of
! trated the outrage.
The Hon. George w. Watts is most likely
to succeed the late c. p. Farnell as Sheriff
! of Columbia county He has already had
his name presented to the Governor for the
| place. and will most likely be named for the
place by the County Commissioners.
The County Commissioners of Gadsden,
at their regular meeting last week, divided
| the county into five commissions districts,
and what is surprising, and to some very
| absurd, they divided 80 as to have three of
! the districts cornering in the town of
| Quincy.
At Ocoee William Wilson had the msfor-
tune to have one Of his out-houses burned
last Friday night, whereby he lost about
$500 worth of farm supplies, such as seed
| potatoes, vegetables, seeds, etc He also had
| ocNciSti ilic CulCktilS DulHetl, duu uufIIcu
out just Ill time to release a pig which was
| confined near by, and which was badly
though not fatally burned.
| Z. w. Speir has arranged to add a valua-
| BILE industry to the business interests of Or
| lando. He has purchased machinery for
bone mill, and also for pearl hominy, corn
meal and feed mill He is now arranging
to have his building erected, and hopes to
| have the industry running in a short time
IL 70 ind
His will be the only pearl hominy mill in
| the State
A member of one of the churches of
| Tampa, who had rented a room to one of
the saloon-keepers who was burned out by
the recent fire, was notified by the church
authorities that he must either cancel the
lease, withdraw from the church, or be tried
by the church He Withdrew Another
member, guilty of n like so-called offense,
was similarly notified. 1t is reported that
he will fight it out If it takes until afte' the
election.
"A few days ago r. A. Fenell and Albert
Bryant, residing near the Georgia line, just
above Concord, Gadsden county, met at a
| road working, in Decatur county, Ga, and
had a difficulty. Bryant, in attempting to
get his fingers in FenelPs eyes, got them into
his mouth instead, and was so badly bitten
that it became necessary to amputate one of
the bitten fingers. he operation was per
formed by DIR. Rushiu, of Calvary, whose
opinion is that be can save the hand with
out further amputation.
The Governor has made the following ap-
pointments: For Supervisor of Registra-
ton, j. G.. Langley, for Jackson county.
Thomas Y. Smith, for Gadsden county; l..
a. Briggs for Levy county, vice Andrews,
declined; j, j. Mattox, for Holmes county;
A. Dolores, to be County Judge for Monroe
county, vice G.. S. Brown, resigned; Viii
liam Frummell, Joseph Williams and J. w.
Hathaway, County Commissioners of
Holmes county; l.. G.. Wilder to be county
surgeon of Holmes county.
Wade Suber and Henry jackson, two
colored men, fell out at Orlando Tuesday.
jackson pulled out his pocket knife and
plunged it into Suber's abdomen. He was
Immediately arrested and locked up. Il
was found TINT the knife had penetrated Just
above the bladder, but whether the intestines
We're cut or not could not at the time be deter
mined. IL may prove "a fatal wound
Suber is regarded as a quiet aud peaceable
man, but he rendered himself odiOus to some
of the colored men by openly voting the
Democratic ticket at the last general cleo
| ton, and ii has been claimed that this is the
real provocation which induced the cutting
Lake City Reporter. Hon. j. Potsdamer
has returned TO us much benefited by his
trip to Hot Springs. Among other advent
ures ne had quite q pleasant meeting with a
diamond hunter. These diamonds are
worthless pebbles, found among the noun
tains. One of the hunters came to town
with n companion, and, seeing Mr. Pots
damar was groenhorn, offered him n fine
diamond for 80 So which seemed quite
reasonable However. they began TO
talk about other matters, and the diamond
was laid on box. A citizen passing by,
seeing it, inquired the price The. hunters
companion replied 25c The man was very
much confused. Mr.. Potsdamer said: You
are from Florida, are You notr NO, was
horned in South Georgia." he growled
well" said Mr. Potsdamer, soothingly,
Just as had supposed"
Mariana Enquirer: On Sunday evening
last, about O'clock, a most atrocious aud
heinous crime was committed upon the per
son of an aged and respectable lady, Mrs.
Baz more, living in Henry county, Ala
bama, and about two miles north OF the
Florida line, by one Jack Myrick, a young
and stalwart colored man, who, In his de
PRAYED aud vicious nature, when no
one but this old lady was at home,
by main force. caught her up, and
carrying her to the horse lot near
by, committed upon her person tho
most heinous of all crimes, despite the i'm
plorations and shreks of the helpless and
weak woman. just as he had accomplished
the diabolical outrage, some one passed the
road close by, when this iend in human